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It's almost like paedophiles would benefit from people being too ashamed to talk about sex.
I think a society that is afraid to talk about sex is even more afraid to argue about what is actually a reasonable age of consent and assume whatever is the current answer is the right answer. That's generally the purpose of making people afraid to talk about a topic. Blind acceptance of a current answer.
It's more than that. They're willing to go into moral panics about it and to trust those who act authoritative about it